Faculty & Staff Articles

Students in Drew R. Potts' Steel Design course (CET 321) traveled to High Steel Structures LLC on Tuesday to learn about bridge girder fabrication. "The concepts students learn in my class are seen up close and very personal at High Steel Structures," said Potts, assistant professor of civil engineering technology.

Public Relations & Marketing at Pennsylvania College of Technology was honored for a short-form video entry in the recent 2022 CUPPIES Awards competition sponsored by CUPRAP, College & University Public Relations and Associated Professionals. The Silver CUPPIE Award was bestowed in the Digital, Short-Form Web Video category for the college’s “Pathways” 30-second spot.

The funeral will be Thursday for Mary Jane West, an associate professor of English at Williamsport Area Community College (a Penn College forerunner) from 1968 until her retirement in 1987, who died March 17 in Delaware at the age of 98. The service will be at 10:30 a.m. in St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church, Northway Road and Sheridan Street.

Six teams of third-year students in Architectural Design Studio V pursued the literal "seat of knowledge" in fashioning functional furniture out of corrugated cardboard on each side of the recent Spring Break.

As a child, Dillon J. DeWitt spent countless hours playing with Legos, reveling in the design and assembly challenges and possibilities. As a Pennsylvania College of Technology student, he’s traded those miniature plastic bricks for components of renowned luxury vehicles. DeWitt, of Oakland, Maryland, is a product engineering intern for BMW Manufacturing Co.

The campus community gathered at UPMC Field on Wednesday afternoon for the centerpiece of a weeklong "Yellow It Out" campaign for suicide prevention and awareness: a men's lacrosse game against Alvernia University.

Lester recaps a rewarding professional life that led to her Penn College position – a road that wound from San Diego to Washington, D.C., to New York City en route to Williamsport. Cementing a community partnership are (from left) Alison A. Diehl, director of Penn College's Clean Energy Center; Duane Hershberger, executive director of Greater Lycoming Habitat for Humanity; and Lester.

“Journey and Transformation: The Careers of David Stabley & Keith Vanderlin” is on display in the lobby of The Gallery at Penn College through May 6. An artists’ reception is set for 4:30 to 6 p.m. (with a gallery talk at 5 p.m.) on Thursday, March 24, in the gallery lobby on the third floor of The Madigan Library at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

After being canceled at the last minute due to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and held as a virtual event during the 2021 school year, BLaST Intermediate Unit 17 and Pennsylvania College of Technology hosted their annual Transition Conference in person on Thursday in the college's Klump Academic Center.

Student leaders gather for an enlightening (and tasty) Etiquette Dinner at Le Jeune Chef Restaurant. Twelve campus leaders recently attended the first Etiquette Dinner of the semester at Penn College's Le Jeune Chef Restaurant.